The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17
American Wool Growers.

Wool growers and wool dealers of the
united States, called by the Presi-
dent of the National Association of
Wool Growers, the following was
unanimously adouted
The wool dealers and wool growers
Eof the United States, representing a
capital of over FIVE hundred millions
Of dollars, and constituency of a
million wool growers and wool deal.
ers, assembled in conference in the
city of Washington, the 7th day of
December, 1887, having read the first
annual message of the President to
the Fiftieth Congress, declare that
the sentiments of the message are a
direct attack upon their industry, one
sf the most important of the coun-
tl.y, asd in positive yialatioa4 of the
National Democratic platform of
1884, as interpreted by the party
leaders, and accepted by the rank
and file of the party that the argu.
ment made by the President for the
removal of our protection against
foreign competition is the old one,
repeatedly made by the enemies of
our industrial progress, and effec-
lively answered in nearly every
school district of our land, and so
thoroughly disapproved by the logic
Of facts and demonstration of expe-
rience and history as to need no an
swer from us. We acknowledge that
our ''smaii hoidings," our scattered
and unorganized condition, make us
the prey of the free trader, but we
had right to expect something diff
ferent from the Chief Executive of
the nation at once the most happy,
prosperous and contented Of any of
the world, made so by a policy of
protection and development which
he now seeks to destroy. We had a
right to expect our President would
favor the wool growers of the United
States. and we confess our deep dis
appointment that instead, he favOrs
the interests of our foreign competi-
tors.
Justly alarmed at his position, we
make an appeal from his recommen-
dotion to the people, to all the peo-
pie, to the seven and three-fourths
millions of our fellow citizens en-
gagged in agriculture, to the millions
engaged in manufacturing, to the
army of wage earners, whose wages
are maintained by the protective sys-
tenn, to the tradesmen and merchants
whose prosperity depends upon ours,
confident that the Judgment and de-
cision will be based upon justice and
patriotism, and therefore for the
maintainance of the American policy
of protection to which the country
is indebted for its uneXampled de-
delopment and prosperity.
To demonstrate the injustice of the
Presidents policy, and the fallacy OF
the remedy he proposes for the re-
duction of the surplus, we point to
the fact that if the whole amount of
the revenue derived from-wool was
abolished it would reduce the surplus
only about five million dollars, or
less than ten cents per capita of the
population, which is paid by foreign
ers, while the old war taxes he rec
onImends retained yield over one
hundred and nineteen million dollars
and are direct tax per capita of two
dollars each, and what makes up the
great bulk of the surplus of one hum
dred and forty million dollars. and
which fosters a most dangerous mo-
nopoly.
We would further add the follow
ing statistics in regard to the wool
Industry:
The annual revenue derived from
imports of wool under the tariff OF
1887 was less than S1,700,0O0. Under
the reduced tariff Of 'S3. the revenue
last year was over FIVE millions.
The number of sheep in the coun-
try in 's4, was 50,626,626 in '87,
44,759,3l4. a decrease Of nearly six
millions, and a diminution of the
annual wool product of over 81, 5,000,-
0O0 pounds, thus showing that re-
duclng the tariff by the act of 1913 has
increased the revenue from imported
woods and dimished the number OF
sheep in the United States about Il
per cent, and the annual product in
the same proportion.
The Presidents policy would bring
about the destruction of this indus
try, and the same policy of reduction
or abolition of the tariff would end in
disaster to all other industrial pro-
ductive enterprises of the country.
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